GTC Financial Managing Director Neville Hughes says the arrival of the NBN in Gladstone is vital if the region’s businesses are to meet their potential. (For the record, Mr Hughes is supporting Movember)

"We've had situations where we've had massive files that we can't upload because they are just too big."

GTC Financial exchanges vast amounts of information online daily, and that communication is made painfully slow by current speeds. Mr Hughes said with the massive expansion of Gladstone, NBN Co needed to roll out the new network as soon as possible.

"It doesn't make sense to roll out the NBN to areas that have minimal growth, and ignore an area that is undergoing a massive boom. Why wouldn't you roll it out early so that businesses here can cope with that growth?"